Lee Breuer

Music by

Eve Beglarian

The New York Times

PREMIERE

Take one environmentally-sensitive chimpanzee, add a rhinoceros with shady business dealings, stir in a generous dollop of live music, plenty of animation and you have the recipe for Animal Magnetism, a raucous love story.

Cheri (the chimp) and Tin Tin’s passion plays out on the ground – often amidst giant cartoon projections of themselves -as well as in the air. They soar and swoop and swoon in awe-inspiring aerial pas de deux. More than a love story, Animal Magnetism is also an allegory. It points out our species’ insatiable appetite for destroying natural resources and the glaring disparities between the first and third worlds. This socio-political- erotic live-action cartoon is one you won’t see on Disney anytime soon!